Entries from May 2008

May 28, 2008

Social Media and Blog Camp – Courtesy Delhi Bloggers Bloc

Come June 7th and we’d witness another one-day unconference on social media and blogging. Its the social media and blog camp by Delhi Bloggers Bloc.
About the Event

A one-day semi-camp style “unconference”* which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging. The wave of social media in India (which includes Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, [...]

May 27, 2008

Proto.in July 18-19 2008

I discovered the news about proto.in from Arun’s latest blog-post on trak.in. Proto.in is an event focused on exciting new startups.
Like the mission statement says, it is about giving entrepreneurs a platform to express their visions and showcase their imagination, with a working prototype, for the world to see. It is about increasing partnership, collaboration [...]

May 13, 2008

Social Media Scores over Mass Media Again

Are you a budding singer? Have you been rejected by one of the reality music shows? Is it curtains for you?
Nah.. think twice before actually coming to the conclusion that it is the end of the road for your singing career. The main-page story about Dr K Chaudhry in today’s Metro Now grabbed my [...]

May 12, 2008

Wanna Present Like Steve Jobs?

Enjoy this fantastic BNET video as Communications coach Carmine Gallo talks about the various techniques that Apple CEO Steve Jobs uses to captivate and inspire his audience. Terrific video on presentation structure and performance.

May 5, 2008

Zemanta: A blessing in disguise for bloggers?

We’re all aware of the relevance of meaningful tags & hyperlinks that need to be inserted in a blog-post. While writing a blog-post a bloggers needs to spend time & effort thinking about appropriate tags which would make it easy for other bloggers to locate the blog-post.
A powerful plugin from Zemanta enables bloggers to focus [...]

May 2, 2008

Social Media trumps Mass Media?

Have you seen Pepsi’s newest ad which is a spoof on Akshay Kumar’s coke advertisement? Yeah the same ad which picks up from Akshay Kumar left us in the Thumbs up commercial.
Pepsi has certainly marked the rise of a new dawn with its ‘Youngistan Campaign’ by releasing the advertisement on YouTube before it actually hit [...]